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<br /> United States Department of the Interior
<br /> National Park Service/National Register of Historic Places Registration Form
<br /> NPS Form 10-900 OMB Control No.1024-0018
<br /> Moorefields (Additional Documentation) Orange County, N.C.
<br /> Name of Property County and State
<br /> Moorefields each summer thereafter. See the Ernest Haywood Collection of Haywood Family Papers, 1752-1967
<br /> Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina,Wilson Library,Southern Historical Collection,No. 01290.
<br /> ""Died" [obituary], The North-Carolina Star Register[Raleigh,N.C.], 14 June 1816: 3.North Carolina Digital
<br /> Heritage Center,North Carolina Newspapers. Accessed 12 June 2024:
<br /> hLtps://newspgpers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn83025819/1816-06-14/ed-1/seq-3/. See also the Ernest Haywood Collection
<br /> of Haywood Family Papers, 1752-1967 Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina,Wilson Library,Southern
<br /> Historical Collection,No.01290.
<br /> 14 It is likely that the commerce the enslaved population at Moorefields engaged in was a sort of cottage industry,
<br /> such as the production of nails or the operation of a small mill.
<br /> 15 United States Census Bureau,"Fourth Census of the United States, 1820,"Brunswick County and Orange County,
<br /> North Carolina(Washington,D.C.:National Archives and Records Administration,Records of the Bureau of the
<br /> Census).Accessed via Ancestry.com, 1820 United States Federal Census [database on-line].
<br /> 56 S.Turrentine,"Runaway Taken Up,"The Weekly Raleigh Register 2 February 1809:3.North Carolina Digital
<br /> Heritage Center,North Carolina Newspapers[website].Accessed 13 June 2024:
<br /> https://newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn92073047/1809-02-02/ed-1/seq-3/.
<br /> 57"Twenty dollars reward" [advertisement],Elizabeth City Star, 11 February 1826. State Library of North Carolina,
<br /> Digital Library on American Slavery:North Carolina Runaway Slave Notices, 1750-1865[website].Accessed 13
<br /> June 2024: https:Hdlas.uncg.edu/notices/notice/561/.
<br /> 58 Alfred Moore,Last Will and Testament(Brunswick County,N.C.:25 July 1810).Recorded 1 February 1908,
<br /> Brunswick County Old Records Book A.W.:41-49.
<br /> 59"Fire." Western Carolinian [Salisbury,N.C.], 12 April 1825:2.North Carolina Heritage Center,North Carolina
<br /> Newspapers [website].Accessed 13 June 2024: htWs://newspapers.dijzitalnc.org/Iccn/sn84026486/1825-04-12/ed-
<br /> 1/seq-2/.
<br /> 61 United States Census Bureau,"Fifth Census of the United States, 1830,"Orange County,North Carolina
<br /> (Washington,D.C.:National Archives and Records Administration,Records of the Bureau of the Census).Accessed
<br /> via Ancestry.com, 1830 United States Federal Census [database on-line].
<br /> 61 While the names of the enslaved were not provided in the 1830 census,the document does categorize the
<br /> individuals by age and gender.The Moorefields enslaved community in 1830 included five young men aged 10-23;
<br /> four men aged 24-35;three men aged over 55; 12 girls under the age of 10;five young women aged 10-23;three
<br /> women aged 36-54;and one woman aged over 55.
<br /> 62 State Archives of North Carolina,"Abstract,"James Iredell Waddell Family Papers, 1762-1919,Record ID
<br /> PC.87(Raleigh,N.C.: State Archives of North Carolina).
<br /> 63"Died."The North-Carolina Star[Raleigh,N.C.] 9 August 1837: 3.North Carolina Digital Heritage Center,North
<br /> Carolina Newspapers[website].Accessed 14 June 2024: https://newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn87090472/1837-
<br /> 08-09/ed-1/seq-3/.
<br /> 64 Alfred Moore,Jr.,Last Will and Testament(Orange County,NC. 6 January 1837).Recorded 1 August 1837,
<br /> Orange County Will Book E: 503.
<br /> 65 His eldest daughter,Susanna H. (1804-1879)married Hugh D.Waddell(1799-1878)in 1824;the couple settled
<br /> near Hillsborough and raised six children,including Alfred Moore Waddell(1834-1912).Elizabeth D. (1806-1869)
<br /> married Francis Nash Waddell(1796-1881)in 1822 and had 11 children,including James Iredell Waddell(1824-
<br /> 1886).Augusta W. (1809-1870)never married.Emma S. (1812-1872)married William Ewan Cameron(1817-1893)
<br /> in December 1837;they resided in Hillsborough,where they raised seven children. Caroline R. (1814-1854)married
<br /> Haywood Williams Guion(1814-1876),a lawyer,on January 30, 1840 and they were living in Lincoln County by
<br /> 1850;they had at least one known daughter—Caroline—in 1854,but both mother and baby died in childbirth.
<br /> 66 Ibid.
<br /> 67 Ibid.
<br /> 68 United States Census Bureau,"Sixth Census of the United States, 1840,"Orange County,North Carolina
<br /> (Washington,D.C.:National Archives and Records Administration,Records of the Bureau of the Census).Accessed
<br /> via Ancestry.com, 1840 United States Federal Census [database on-line].
<br /> 69 These are James Iredell(1824-1886);Rebecca C. (1826-1861);Charles E. (1829-1874),Sarah J.(1830-1859),
<br /> Jane D.(1832-1852),Owen A. (1833-1864),Francis Nash,Jr. (1835-1919),and Frederick N. (1837-1868).All of
<br /> these children were born in Wilmington,N.C. Waddell and his wife had three more children after occupying
<br /> Moorefields circa 1837: Guion Williams(1840-1911);Mary Haynes(1842-1842);and Cadwalader Jones(1844-
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